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From: mikej@lilink.UUCP (Michael R. Johnston)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: tar help
Keywords: tar, SUN unix 4.2
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Date: 8 Aug 89 00:01:16 GMT
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gefuchs@goedel.uucp (Gill E. Fuchs) writes:
>suppose i want to tar an entire accound into a tar file named
>GUGU.tar
>then i type (at the ~ directory)
>	tar cvf GUGU.tar .
>but after sometime tar tars GUGU.tar recorsively upon itself,

I have had this problem as well. The solution is of course that you are
saying "Tar every file in this directory". GUGO.tar happens to be one of
them. To get around this I usually do like so:

	tar cvf /tmp/GUGO.tar .

And that takes care of the problem.